For the first hour we focused on the UK election result as we awaited Theresa May’s 10am speech at 10 Downing St. which never came. She will now go to the Queen at Buckingham Palace at 12.30 today to seek permission to form a Government.

Spiked (also written as sp!ked) is a British Internet magazine focusing on politics, culture and society from a broadly libertarian perspective. Spiked is edited by Brendan O'Neill, following Mick Hume's departure in January 2007, and features regular contributions from James Heartfield, Michael Fitzpatrick, Patrick West, Rob Lyons, Nathalie Rothschild, Tim Black, Duleep Allirajah, Tom Slater, Joanna Williams and Frank Furedi.

Spiked opposes all restrictions to immigration and freedom of movement, favouring entirely open international borders. It regards policies of multiculturalism as government-sanctioned cultural segregation masquerading as tolerance, which unhealthily overemphasise differences between people. Other notable positions of Spiked are their opposition to the post-9/11 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and Western interference in developing nations in general.[12][13][14] It seeks to counter what it sees as a recent trend in Western foreign policy: humanitarian intervention.[15]

Some have said that Spiked’s stance has more in common with libertarianism than with the mainstream left.[16]

You could well be right about Spiked, but it was funny and long overdue to give the usual RTE panel a ’ punch to the nose’ .

I’ve read Spiked from time to time and at least it gives us some interesting viewpoints. It’s basically UK although I presume the editor Brendan O’Neill would qualify to play for us. RTE has the same dreary bores droning on every time. Would you want to listen to any of them in a pub? They’d sour your pint.
Newstalk and Today fm at least try something different - Matt Cooper and Hook before he went to lunchtime were good to switch from one to the other. RTE Drivetime always seems boring and safe in contrast.